Month: March 2024

As blogged about recently, on March 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule extending telemarketing fraud protections to businesses and updating the Telemarketing Sales Rule’s recordkeeping requirements. Specifically, the final rule implements updates that prohibit deceptive and abusive practices in all business-to business calls; updates the TSR’s recordkeeping requirements; and proposed an…

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it has adopted new rules and codified previously adopted protections that make it simpler for consumers to revoke consent to unwanted robocalls and robotexts (specifically, autodialed and/or artificial/ prerecorded voice calls and texts) while requiring that callers and texters honor these requests in a timely…

On March 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule extending telemarketing fraud protections to businesses and updating the rule’s recordkeeping requirements as a result of developments in technology and the marketplace. FTC lawyers also announced a proposed rule that would provide the agency with significant new tools to combat tech support scams. Both…

The FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection welcomes an open dialogue with parties cooperating with its investigations.   According to FTC lawyers, such dialogue allows the agency to make more informed decisions on whether to recommend an enforcement action and, if so, whether such an action can be resolved without the need for protracted litigation. However, the…